--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "rocksolidrobot"
<rocksolidrobot@y...> wrote:

>
>
> I've spent about $1700 on technical texts, IT books, but that was a
> while ago. For the past 2 years, I haven't seen a book that I thought
> was worth buying -- that wasn't for lack of trying I've browsed about
> $22,000 dollars worth of them at bookshops and libraries. The one to
> break the drought was "The Firebird Book" by Helen Borrie. It's a
> first rate text about a fantastic/proven but little known bit of
> technology. I'm still very pissed off, because there is still lots of
> junk to learn and frustration to endure before Firebird does what I
> want it to (hence the book) but I can't be mad with Helen Borrie, it
> is an excellent book.

I just picked it up last week. I have a specific project in mind and
coming from an Oracle background, I'm finding a good bit of familiar
stuff here. The book is well laid out with a good intro primer on
client-server database architecture. So far I really like the book. It
reads well.

One question I had was concerning the sample database, employee.fdb.
Ms. Borrie's comments in Appendix VI indicate that a new,
better-designed sample database was in the works and would perhaps be
around in late 2004. Does anyone have any word on it? Thanks in
advance for any info.

Bob